香港理工大学

Programme Aims & Learning Outcomes

This unique interdisciplinary programme aims to enable students to synthesise technology, design and business in the development of high quality innovative products. It provides graduates with the fundamental knowledge, skills, techniques and global insight needed to develop creative products that are competitively priced, meet international standards for quality and can be successfully marketed. Graduates usually serve the community as professional design engineers, engineering designers or product innovation specialists. They are expected to play important roles in Hong Kong’s evolving industry, from ODM to innovative OBM. Graduates of the programme are expected to have:

• the ability to perform product design engineering by considering market needs and technology and business constraints;
• the ability to apply scientific, mathematical and engineering knowledge, as well as an understanding of market trends and customer needs, to analyse design engineering problems;
• the ability to manage product innovation and development projects; and
• the ability to master innovation entrepreneurship and develop their own businesses.

Programme Characteristics

The programme provides comprehensive education and training in design, development and analysis for engineering and product innovation, equipping graduates to synthesise product design, technology and business to produce successful new products that satisfy market needs. The programme adopts learning outcome oriented, integrative and real life design project based teaching and learning approaches, helping students to develop their knowledge of engineering innovation, product development and marketing. We help our students to develop their communication, teamwork, innovation, project management and self-learning skills. Students are also given opportunities for extensive practical training through international or local attachments in professional design consultancy firms or industrial R&D departments for two to six months. This strengthens their ability to integrate knowledge into design engineering activities in a realistic industrial context. Thus, graduates are able to play leading roles in the industry by virtue of their well-balanced education and practical training in design engineering innovation and product development.

• we use the learning outcome-oriented teaching approach;
• students are required to complete Industrial Training and Work-Integrated Education; and
• students can also opt for summer placements with companies abroad, or in the industry in Hong Kong or the Chinese mainland.

Career Prospects

Graduates have excellent opportunities to start their careers in product design and development, engineering consultancy, environmental engineering and manufacturing. Due to their ability to integrate engineering with product design and their experience of performing design projects, our graduates have the competence they need to work as design engineers or project coordinators. The programme provides graduates with a very good foundation in mechanical engineering and its use to solve engineering problems, along with product and system design. Thus, our graduates are able to pursue careers as mechanical engineers.

Whereas some graduates serve the community and industry as professional engineers, others choose to develop their own businesses. Making use of their knowledge in business, marketing and product innovation, some graduates start their own businesses in the design and development of new products.